UK colder than European ski resorts last night

7th January 2010

Parts of the UK were colder than European ski resorts last night. The temperature in Benson, Oxfordshire, and Woodford, Greater Manchester, reached -18C.

Minus 18 is a degree lower than some manufacturers recommend for freezing food at home and 2C warmer than the south pole (currently in it's summer.) By comparison, the popular ski destinations of Davos, in Switzerland, and St Anton, in Austria, saw temperatures of -12C and -8C respectively.

This winters equally low temp of -18C was in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, on 29 December 2009

It is predicted that it could get even colder, with the temperature in parts of Scotland expected to fall below -20C tonight.

The current freeze has some way to go before reaching the all-time British low of -27.2C, which has been recorded three times, all in Scotland – twice in Braemar, on 11 February 1895 and 10 January 1982, and in Altnaharra, in the Scottish Highlands on 30 December 1995. The lowest temperature recorded in England is -26.1C, in Newport, Shropshire, in 1982.

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